Bipartisan lawmakers say too much of the state's stormwater, stored to protect imperiled fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, is flowing to the Pacific rather than being pumped to reservoirs and aqueducts.
Legislators, many from drought-starved agriculture regions of the Central Valley, in strongly-worded letters have implored state and federal officials to relax environmental pumping restrictions that are limiting the amount of water captured from the delta.
“When Mother Nature blesses us with rain, we need to save the water, instead of dumping it into the ocean,” Assemblymember Vince Fong (R-Bakersfield) wrote in a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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GAS-ELECTRIC CORVETTE SPEEDY. General Motors' first Chevrolet Corvette E-Ray, it's first gas-electric hybrid Corvette, also will be the fastest version of the sports car. It can go to 60 miles an hour in 2.5 seconds. Price tags start at about $104,000.
RECORD SIZE TOAD. Australia’s Conway National Park captures a cane toad that weighs nearly six pounds, making it possibly the largest on record. Because of its size, it is labeled Toadzilla.
OLDEST LIVING DOG. Marking a Guinness World Record, the world's Oldest Living dog is Spike, a 23-year-old chihuahua mix in Camden, Ohio, that enjoys crunched up Doritos, walks and Saturday baths.
WARMING UP. A report in Journal Nature notes temperatures on the Greenland ice sheet are the warmest in at least 1,000 years. Scientists find between 2001 and 2011, average temperature was 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than it was during the 20th century.
HIGH SCHOOL BRIGHT SPOT IN TOWN. Lights in a large regional high school in Wilbraham, Mass. have been on around the clock for a year and a half. Software that runs the 7,000 lights in the building failed in August, 2021, running up the bill for illumination.
BEAVERS RETURN AFTER 400 YEARS. Two beavers are released in the southern English county of Hampshire. It’s labeled a “truly historic event because it marks the first time in 400 years beavers are in the area. They were extinct for centuries in many parts of the continent after being hunted for their fur and meat.
ALL ABOARD. Husband and wife buy a bus for their dog walking business in Alaska. Activity has grown so now the bus has a load of canine passengers that head for a daily adventure.
